Thursday, 11 October 2012

Museum Adityawarman West Sumatra

Museum Adityawarman, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia

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A. Background and History Museum AdityawarmanMuseum Adityawarman built with an awareness of the need for container
preservation of cultural heritage in West Sumatra as an attempt to stem
the flow of objects - objects of cultural heritage area is out of the
country. In
a series of rescue operations objects - objects of cultural heritage is
the Chief Representative (now Kakanwil) Ministry of Education and
Culture of West Sumatra Province Mr. Amir Ali, expressed the desire of
the Governor of West Sumatra province, who was headed by Mr. Aaron Zain
to quickly build a "Minangkabau Culture Center "who eventually responded to by the Directorate Museum as a means to build a regional museum.

Once
it is agreed that in West Sumatra will be built a regional museum that
was built in the provincial capital by local governments instituted as a
location for the establishment of field monument museum province. Construction
of the museum when it was accompanied by the instructions of the
Governor of I that the basic principle should be characterized by
traditional building construction. So it was made a museum with traditional Minangkabau architecture that is tailored to the Tower House standardization a museum. Construction
of the museum with traditional architecture is evocative of the effort
of the high value of traditional building national heritage that must be
preserved.Construction
of the museum is located in an area of ​​approximately 2.6 acres with
the building now is 2854.8 m2, located at Jl. Diponegoro 10 PadangConstruction of the museum was originally budgeted in fiscal year 1974/1975. And was officially completed on March 16, 1977 by prof. Dr. Sharif
Thayeb (at that time he served as Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia), and since the founding of the museum that has been able to
perform the duties and functions gradually until today to become the
pride of the museum of West SumatraFurthermore,
the museum is named STATE MUSEUM WEST SUMATRA Adityawarman by Decree of
the Ministry of Education and Culture No.093/0/1979 dated May 28, 1979,
use of the name of this Adityawarman we remember the greatness of the
name of one of the ruling king Minangkabau around the 14th century.After
Adityawarman Museum Regional autonomy status in 2001 officially managed
the West Sumatra Provincial Government under the auspices of the
Department of Culture and Tourism of the Province of West SumatraB. CollectionCollection
is owned by 2006 it had amounted to 5781 units consisting of
collections of archeology, numismatika and heraldika, keramologika,
etnografika, fine art, teknologika, Biologika, geologika, historika and
filologika.C. Hours / Schedule of VisitsTuesday - Sunday : At 08:00 to 16:00 hrsFriday : At 08:00 to 16:00 hrsFriday Prayer Break : At 11:30 to 14:00 hrs : At 14:00 to 16:30 hrsMonday : Special exhibition room (closed)

D. AdmissionAdults : Rp.2.000, - (including insurance Rp.100)Children - children : 1,000 (including insurance Rp.50)Especially for group only pay half of the group